BC BioFleet
1st Floor 470 Granville St.
Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5
Tel: (604) 488-5359 | Fax: (604) 488-5351
The BC Biofleet website is designed to be the information hub for biodiesel in British Columbia. This website provides access to a variety of biodiesel tools and BC focused information that facilitates a decision to use biodiesel.
BC Hydro
Working with the BC Film Commission, the City of Vancouver and industry stakeholders, BC Hydro is helping with green opportunities by providing alternative power services and other "green" initiatives in the motion picture industry. BC Hydro is partnering in a pilot project for the installation of permanent power drops at "hub" centres that can be used instead of diesel generators to power film trucks and sets where applicable. These installations may also be used by the special event community as we lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Fraser Basin Council
Central Office
1st Floor, 470 Granville St
Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5
Tel: 604-488-5350 | Fax: 604-488-5351
Since it was established in 1997, the FBC has played a key leadership role in helping to resolve conflicts, educate the public about sustainability and take advantage of opportunities to advance sustainability throughout the Fraser River Basin.
The FBC and its partners have tackled a wide range of important sustainability issues, chalking up an extensive list of accomplishments. Today, the FBC is actively involved in resolving some 50 issues that affect the well being of people who live in the Basin. In all of its work, the FBC remains impartial, transpartisan, independent and non-political in its primary role as an advocate for a sustainable Basin.
Green Table Sustainable Food Service
Jason Antony
215-35 West 5th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1H4
Tel: (604) 351-7258 | Fax: (604) 215-0303
Green Table is a Vancouver-based social enterprise with a simple-yet-innovative program to help restaurants and foodservice operators do more for the environment by doing three basic things:
1) reducing your environmental impacts, by using less energy, water and creating less waste
2) utilizing more local foods and green products and services
3) building support from your customers and our community
What defines a Green Table Network restaurant or foodservice outlet?
Certainly not its location, cuisine or menu prices. From food courts to fine dining, family-owned independents to brand name chains, it starts with the conscious desire of a growing number of chefs and restaurateurs for clear, measurable steps to effectively reduce their operations’ impact on the environment. As a first step, the Green Table program helps them get all these ideas on paper (recycled, naturally).
Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver
69 West 69th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5X 2W6
Tel: (604) 681-5618 | Fax: (604) 872-0223
Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver is a non-profit, faith-based organization seeking to eliminate poverty housing in the Greater Vancouver area. Through volunteer labour and donations of money and materials, Habitat for Humanity works with partner families to build simple, decent housing.
Funds are generated through two Habitat ReStores (Burnaby and Vancouver) which sell donated new and used building materials to the public.
Hybrid Experience Report
Hybrid electric vehicles (hybrids) are a new technology that combines the internal combustion engine of a conventional vehicle with the battery and electric motor of an electric vehicle. The result is a vehicle that can dramatically reduce fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and smog.
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada
Tel: (604) 827-5748 | Fax: 604-822-8106
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada partners with the BC Film Commission in the testing of their Vancouver Fuel Cell Vehicle Program which is putting Fuel Cell Vehicles and hydrogen refuelling systems to work in real-world applications to enable the evaluation and improvement of system performance.
The program is also helping facilitate international codes and standards development and other activities critical to preparing the market for a clean-energy future.
Metro Vancouver Smart Steps
The Metro Vancouver SmartSteps is a program of tools, technical assistance and information to help your business become more eco-efficient and more competitive. Their goal is to help you find specific, cost-effective actions you can take to reduce the amount of materials and energy your business uses.
Metro Vancouver Solid Waste Management
Each year, people and businesses in the Lower Mainland generate 3 million tonnes of garbage and recyclables. Because of the economic and environmental costs of handling this vast amount of materials, reducing the amount of garbage - also called solid waste - we produce can be an important step for residents of the region.
Increasing the amount of recyclables that are processed into other products rather than winding up in landfills is one of a variety of things we can do to help this region move towards a long-term goal of sustainability.
One Day - Vancouver
One Day is about taking small steps to reduce energy use at home and on the road to help make Vancouver the cleanest, greenest, healthiest city in the world.
One Day is about small first steps. It's about individual actions that each of us can take in our every day lives. It's about what is possible, and rewarding and applauding each and every action, no matter how big or how small. It's about momentum and shared success.
Province of BC Product Stewardship
Product Stewardship in British Columbia is based on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which is an international initiative to achieve waste reduction and taxpayer relief world-wide.
In British Columbia, EPR or Industry Product Stewardship (IPS) is a ministry strategy to place the onus for end of life product management on the producer and consumers of a product and not the general taxpayer or local government.
Recycling Council of British Columbia
Brock MacDonald
Suite 10-119 W. Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1S5
Tel: 604-683-6009 | Fax: 604-683-7255
The Recycling Council of British Columbia is a multi-sectoral non-profit organization promoting the principles of Zero Waste through information services, the exchange of ideas, and research. One of its goals is to work with film and television industry professionals to develop a recycling strategy for the industry. Check out the British Columbia Industrial Materials Exchange: http://www.bcimex.ca/
United We Can
Tel: (604) 681-0001 | Fax: (604) 662-7677
By creating self sustaining enterprises that focus on caring for our urban environment, United We Can creates income and job training opportunities for people of the inner city.
One of their programs is a bottle recycling and collection service that operates on the downtown east side of Vancouver.
